Introduction to Art Therapy Rubric Results
Semester: SPRING 2014
Total students evaluated:
Evaluation data sources: Class requirements - midterm exam essays, response essays to
presentations and psychiatric museum visit, visual response journals and class
observations.
Professor: Susan Natacha Gonzalez, MA, ATR-BC, MS Ed
TOTAL # OF STUDENTS - 20
ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION:
Expresses knowledge of history of art
therapy.
Excellent – 7
Good – 5
Average - 3
Fair – 3
Poor – 2
Expresses knowledge and provides
examples of theoretical approaches
incorporated by the field of art therapy
derived from fields such as psychology and
education.
Expresses knowledge of the two
approaches to art therapy – art
psychotherapy and art as therapy.
Excellent – 4
Good – 7
Average - 5
Fair – 1
Poor – 3
Excellent – 5
Good – 5
Average - 4
Fair – 3
Poor – 3
Excellent – 12
Good – 3
Average - 2
Fair – 1
Poor – 2
Excellent – 16
Good – 2
Average Fair – 1
Poor – 1
Expresses knowledge of the purpose of
ethics and provides three examples of
ethical standards as established by the
American Art Therapy Association.
Expresses knowledge of transferential
processes within the therapeutic alliance
(between the therapist and the client).
Defines transference and countertransference and reasons for such.
ART THERAPY PROJECTS:
Practice hands-on methods used in art
therapy – the connection among media,
process and metaphor.
Excellent – 6
Good – 4
Average - 7
Fair – 0
Poor – 3
To support students’ comprehension and retention the following recommendations
will be considered for the following semester:
#1. Restructure midterm examination essay questions that connect background
information (previous academic/life experience) to lecture content and request
examples of answers provided by the students.
#2. Use explicit learning strategies (where learning process is described to students
alongside lecture)
a. connect the history of the development of art therapy and its
relationship to the field of psychology
b. to support integration of metaphor, process and media during
studio/hands-on activities to further comprehend how art therapy
works.
Since this course is only taught by one person each semester, the final results will be sent in the
Spring of 2015 when there are more semesters to evaluate the effectiveness of the changes to
be made based on the findings during Spring 2014.